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calorie meaning in Tamil

வெப்பளி

UK/ˈkæləɹi/

calorie in Tamil: வெப்பளி, கனலி, கலோரி, எரிசத்தி அலகு. In English, calorie means a non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 kilojoules, that can raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. This is the unit normally used in food labeling.

Tamil words for calorie

வெப்பளி, கனலி, கலோரி, எரிசத்தி அலகு, காலரி, வெப்ப அலகு

English meaning of calorie

  1. noun A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 kilojoules, that can raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. This is the unit normally used in food labeling.
  2. noun A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 joules, that can raise the temperature of a gram of water by one degree Celsius. This unit was formerly widely used in chemistry and physics.

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  • Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie
  • Meronyms: calorie (small-calorie sense), small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie
  • Holonyms: kilocalorie, calorie (large-calorie sense), large calorie, Calorie (capital C) < megacalorie < gigacalorie

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Questions about calorie in Tamil

What is the meaning of calorie in Tamil?
Calorie in Tamil is வெப்பளி, கனலி, கலோரி, எரிசத்தி அலகு.
calorie என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
Calorie: வெப்பளி, கனலி, கலோரி, எரிசத்தி அலகு.
What does calorie mean in English?
Calorie means a non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 kilojoules, that can raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. This is the unit normally used in food labeling.

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Tamil words from Tamil Wiktionary: calorie (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: calorie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Tamil words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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